false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170980239m/80202.jpg 80202 7 <P>Bishop John Shelby Spong has been on a life&ndash;long quest to rescue the church from irrelevancy. In FREEING JESUS FROM RELIGION'S PRISON, he takes aim at the church's core belief: who is Jesus. He first strips the superstitious barnacles that have attached themselves to this incredible person: such as that Jesus was born of a virgin in Bethlehem, that his father was Joseph, that he did miracles, that he had twelve disciples, and especially that he physically rose from the dead. Next Spong explains how these traditions arose by the early disciples seeing all he did through the lens of the Hebrew Scriptures. With these new revelations, we are then able to see the true Jesus, a heroic figure who revealed divinity through his humanness and can still guide us today. In short, Spong breaks Jesus free from the idol religion has created and restores for us a revolutionary and life&ndash;giving figure we all need to meet.</P> 77444 1 3 2007 Jesus for the Non-Religious total:109|5:37|4:37|3:23|2:8|1:4| 109 422 224 46 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 23:32:21 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 23:38:05 -0800 2008
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I would have given this book more stars had Spong limited himself to simply demonstrating the likelihood that much of the NT was constructed (using the OT as its guide) to make a messiah out of Jesus. Instead of this mor...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 28 20:54:15 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 21:03:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 07:04:05 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 07:30:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 17:31:45 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 09:42:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 02 20:17:48 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 20:19:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 14:29:01 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 22:12:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Apr 10 06:47:43 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 06 07:01:37 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 12:04:28 -0800 2008
I have a hard time with people who have no sense of mystery; who worship science with the same blind trust that others worship God. Anyone who thinks tha...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 03:11:08 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 03:13:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 13:06:34 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 13:17:56 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 22 08:07:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 24 12:51:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 21:33:12 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 17:56:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Dec 23 07:36:09 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 07:37:46 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 15:12:44 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 09:28:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 07:56:52 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 14:14:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 02 17:46:26 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 17:48:37 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=80202